/lit/ - Literature

Fall of Hyperion was pretty good. I didn't like it as much as the first book, and it's pretty easy to see how the series keeps going downhill.

Simmons produces a lot of clunky sentences while grasping for profundity, and he's not above pouring on the sentimentality either. Which was great in the Scholar's Tale in Hyperion but I felt myself getting fed up by the end of Fall.

The series reminds me of Ada Palmer's books in several ways -- a complacent society unwittingly addicted to a miraculous transport technology it can't understand, the author more concerned with literature than science, the destablizing effect of frontier areas.